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Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance

Riddle, John M.

Year: 1992.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

1 Population and Sex

2 Evidence for Oral Contraceptives and Abortifacients

3 Soranus on Antifertility Agents

4 Terminology in Dioscorides' De materia medica

5 Early Stage Abortifacients in Dioscorides and Soranus

6 Ancient Society and Birth Control Agents

7 Egyptian Papyrus Sources

8 Greek and Roman Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen

9 The Late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages

10 The MIddle Ages: The Church, Macer, and Hildegard

11 Salerno and Medicine through the Twelfth Century

12 Islam, Arabic Medicine through the Twelfth Century

13 Knowledge of Birth Control in the West

14 The Renaissance

15 Later Developments

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibilography

Index

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Title:

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance : John M. Riddle.

Author:

Riddle, John M

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Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance : John M. Riddle.
Riddle, John M
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Subject Headings:

• Contraception -- History
• Abortifacients -- History
• Medicine, Ancient
• Medicine, Medieval
• Oral contraceptives -- History

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